On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:49:27PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > We've found in the past that various bug reports have had minimal > information, just a few printk's rather than a complete oops, > and it's taken several round-trips with the bug reporter before > we've discovered they had some proprietary module loaded. > > The patches below adds dumping of the tainted state to some > extra parts of the kernel that report 'bad things' happening. > These patches have been in the Fedora kernel for some time now, > and have proved useful often. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/bug.h~ 2007-02-12 16:18:21.000000000 > -0500 > +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/bug.h 2007-02-12 16:19:57.000000000 > -0500 > @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ > > #include <linux/compiler.h> > > +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ > +extern const char *print_tainted(void); > +#endif > + > #ifdef CONFIG_BUG > > #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG > @@ -22,7 +26,8 @@ struct bug_entry { > > #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_BUG > #define BUG() do { \ > - printk("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, > __FUNCTION__); \ > + printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()! (%s)\n", > + __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__, print_tainted()); \ > panic("BUG!"); \ > } while (0) > #endif >...
Note that this only changes a handful of architectures and most likely not the ones you are interested in. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/